Re: question about URLs: is http:/dir illegal?

Although early URL documents allowed a relative URL which supplied a
'scheme' but no 'host' (such as you'd find with http:/a/b/c/test.html),
it was impossible to specify relative URL processing in a way that was
scheme-independent: one could not tell whether a URL was absolute or
relative without knowing the details of the URL scheme's syntax.

So, currently 'http:/a/b/c' is not an allowed URL syntax.

Larry
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